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Thanks, docflied! that will help a lot.

marble_eater, that tutorial looks very useful, I will definitely take a look at it! actually XNA game studio was what led me to C#. I don't even remember how I found it. I'm just doing the beginning tutorial to learn the c# sytnax (I dabbled around in c++ for a little bit, but decided to drop it for c# because of XNA studio) because when I would start a new game project in XNA and looked at the code file, I was like "HUH?". it nothing familiar to me really. I will definitely be using XNA for games and stuff. I was just wondering if there was like a website or something that had a list of cool projects that beginners can try. Thanks though! I guess I will just have to use my imagination?

Hey guys, I'm new at c#. I'm still in the process of learning. I've never really been into programming, developing etc but I've always loved science and technology, and always wanted to try the game developing side of it. one of the real reasons I never stuck to learning a language was lack of ideas and understanding concepts. well, I've got a good basic tutorial to stick with for a while, and I'm finally understanding now. I'm figuring out that I like the fact that you can write software for *whatever* you want. I'm programming in console applications right now. So, my question is... Does anyone have any cool and simple ideas for programs that a beginner could write for practice and learning, or somewhere to look for ideas. I'm trying to come up with ideas myself but I figured I'd look here for a little extra help. I like topics like: 1)telling the computer to do a huge math problem, algorithm, or puzzle 2)cryptography/code breaking 3)Simple games 4)artificial intelligence 5)communication 6)drawing 3d objects, custom GUIs I'm not really the type that would develop business or web applications, etc, as you can see, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to write them or that what I write can't be useful. however there would be no point for me to develop a business application because I'm just a beginner and no one would buy it :P maybe for personal use though. so if you guys have any ideas or resources including but not limited to these topics, I think that will help me out. meanwhile I'm writing ideas like these down. Thanks!

Oh okay. Cool, thanks.

I'm working with a basic console application. I'm trying to use the Console.SetWindowPosition method to put the console window at the top left of the screen, but for some reason its not working (and no error either). (I also set the console to the largest size possible, as you can see in my code) Here's my code: using System; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red; Console.SetWindowSize(Console.LargestWindowWidth, Console.LargestWindowHeight); Console.SetWindowPosition(Console.WindowLeft, Console.WindowTop);...etc etc... I also tried Console.SetWindowPosition(0, 0); but with no cigar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.